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Gallery Notes Volume 41 Number 6

Gallery Notes Volume 41 Number 6 Page 1

GALLERY NOTES
Vol. 41, No. 6 February 1976
Acquisition
THE CHARLES RAND PENNEY
FOUNDATION COLLECTION
A major gift—a collection of 380 art objects —
has been made to the Gallery by the Charles
Rand Penney Foundation.
One of the largest gifts ever to come to the
Gallery at one time, the Penney Foundation
collection is made up of prints, drawings,
watercolors, collages, photographs and sculpture, concentrating in contemporary American
prints of the 1960s and 70s.
The non-profit, non-sectarian foundation was
established in 1963 by Charles Rand Penney as
a means of furthering contemporary American
art and education. Steadily building its collection since then under the direction of Mr.
Penney, the foundation has made extensive
loans in this country to schools, colleges, museums and other institutions, and overseas
through the Art in the Embassies Program
administered by the U. S. State Department.
The gift represents the entire holdings of the
Foundation, which has since been dissolved.
Included are two important sculptures—a Calder
mobile and a painted steel piece by David Smith
—and 12 complete portfolios of prints, among
them two Jackson Pollock portfolios, the 1970
Radical Realism I portfolio, and the New York
Ten Portfolio.
Chronologically the collection ranges from
Whistler, represented by an 1879 etching, to
the major graphic artists of the 50s, 60s and
70s. Among those included are Josef Albers,
Karel Appel, Archipenko, Milton Avery, Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Burchfield, Arthur B.
Davies, Barbara Hepworth, Roy Lichtenstein,
Ben Nicholson, Larry Rivers, James Rosen-
quist, Ed Ruscha, Victor Vasarely, Andy
Warhol and Jack Youngerman.
As Gallery director John A. Mahey pointed out
in accepting the gift, the Penney Foundation
collection duplicates only a few works previously in our collection of post-1950 prints
and, as a result, our total holdings in contemporary prints now constitute the richest and
broadest representation of 20th century art
found in any department of the Gallery.
A generously illustrated catalogue of The
Charles Rand Penney Collection of the Gallery
is being published to coordinate with the exhibition later this month of selections from the
collection.
GIFT—Two from the Charles Rand Penney Collection. Top: Lyonel Feininger, Kreuzende Segel-
schlffe, woodcut, 1954. Below: Roy Lichtenstein,
Foot and Hand, offset lithography, 1964.
Members' Opening
Friday, February 27, 8-10 o'clock
Charles Rand Penney Collection; American
Art Pottery; Rochester International Salon
of Photography
Coffee / sherry
Admission by membership card
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

GALLERY NOTES
Vol. 41, No. 6 February 1976
Acquisition
THE CHARLES RAND PENNEY
FOUNDATION COLLECTION
A major gift—a collection of 380 art objects —
has been made to the Gallery by the Charles
Rand Penney Foundation.
One of the largest gifts ever to come to the
Gallery at one time, the Penney Foundation
collection is made up of prints, drawings,
watercolors, collages, photographs and sculpture, concentrating in contemporary American
prints of the 1960s and 70s.
The non-profit, non-sectarian foundation was
established in 1963 by Charles Rand Penney as
a means of furthering contemporary American
art and education. Steadily building its collection since then under the direction of Mr.
Penney, the foundation has made extensive
loans in this country to schools, colleges, museums and other institutions, and overseas
through the Art in the Embassies Program
administered by the U. S. State Department.
The gift represents the entire holdings of the
Foundation, which has since been dissolved.
Included are two important sculptures—a Calder
mobile and a painted steel piece by David Smith
—and 12 complete portfolios of prints, among
them two Jackson Pollock portfolios, the 1970
Radical Realism I portfolio, and the New York
Ten Portfolio.
Chronologically the collection ranges from
Whistler, represented by an 1879 etching, to
the major graphic artists of the 50s, 60s and
70s. Among those included are Josef Albers,
Karel Appel, Archipenko, Milton Avery, Thomas Hart Benton, Charles Burchfield, Arthur B.
Davies, Barbara Hepworth, Roy Lichtenstein,
Ben Nicholson, Larry Rivers, James Rosen-
quist, Ed Ruscha, Victor Vasarely, Andy
Warhol and Jack Youngerman.
As Gallery director John A. Mahey pointed out
in accepting the gift, the Penney Foundation
collection duplicates only a few works previously in our collection of post-1950 prints
and, as a result, our total holdings in contemporary prints now constitute the richest and
broadest representation of 20th century art
found in any department of the Gallery.
A generously illustrated catalogue of The
Charles Rand Penney Collection of the Gallery
is being published to coordinate with the exhibition later this month of selections from the
collection.
GIFT—Two from the Charles Rand Penney Collection. Top: Lyonel Feininger, Kreuzende Segel-
schlffe, woodcut, 1954. Below: Roy Lichtenstein,
Foot and Hand, offset lithography, 1964.
Members' Opening
Friday, February 27, 8-10 o'clock
Charles Rand Penney Collection; American
Art Pottery; Rochester International Salon
of Photography
Coffee / sherry
Admission by membership card
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester